My American Revolution course now has a core of committed students. We took a field trip yesterday downtown to the Battle of Plattsburgh commemoration. They’ll write blog posts this weekend and Tuesday we’ll discuss. I suspect the surgeon’s demonstration will be a popular topic.

Up early for England - Australia. Though West Indies became my team, it was listening to BBC Test Match Special coverage of the 2005 Ashes that pulled me into cricket, and I’ll always have a soft spot for England because of it. 🏏

Q: Let’s move the discussion to politics. What about Ross Perot? In some ways, he fits into the portrait you have painted–a picture you say we are to avoid–of someone who sees the world in terms of opportunities for enterprise.

A: Yes, he scares me because of that entrepreneurial, competitive drive of his. If by any freakish chance he should be elected, I’d bet he would be impeached within two years. He seems the kind of person who is going to be an outrage to every democratic principle, because all of his principles are about business. I think he is a very shrewd manipulator, and he has enough of the populist feel to him to scare me even more. Many demagogues have a populist feel of that kind.